OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Sociological Methods & Research is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A Crash Course in Good and Bad Controls	79
Interactions in Fixed Effects Regression Models	44
Non-invariance? An Overstated Problem With Misconceived Causes	34
Participant Observation, Observant Participation, and Hybrid Ethnography	34
Abductive Coding: Theory Building and Qualitative (Re)Analysis	32
Applying and Assessing Large-N QCA: Causality and Robustness From a Critical Realist Perspective	27
Coverage Error in Data Collection Combining Mobile Surveys With Passive Measurement Using Apps: Data From a German National Survey	24
A Method for Studying Differences in Segregation Across Time and Space	18
Using Interviews to Understand Why: Challenges and Strategies in the Study of Motivated Action	17
Fixed Effects Individual Slopes: Accounting and Testing for Heterogeneous Effects in Panel Data or Other Multilevel Models	16
The Living Codebook: Documenting the Process of Qualitative Data Analysis	16
The Problem of Scaling in Exponential Random Graph Models	14
Response Quality in Nonprobability and Probability-based Online Panels	13
What Do We Mean By a “Hard-to-reach” Population? Legitimacy Versus Precarity as Barriers to Access	13
Why Measurement Invariance is Important in Comparative Research. A Response to Welzel et al. (2021)	13
A Robustness Test Protocol for Applied QCA: Theory and R Software Application	13
Making Things Possible	13
A Comparison of Three Popular Methods for Handling Missing Data: Complete-Case Analysis, Inverse Probability Weighting, and Multiple Imputation	12
Critical Event Analysis in Case Study Research	12
Moving Beyond Linear Regression: Implementing and Interpreting Quantile Regression Models With Fixed Effects	12
Intensive Family Observations: A Methodological Guide	10
The Gap-Closing Estimand: A Causal Approach to Study Interventions That Close Disparities Across Social Categories	9
Uncertainty, Possibility, and Causal Power in QCA	9
Inter-Rater Reliability Methods in Qualitative Case Study Research	8
Letting a Picture Speak a Thousand Words: Arts-based Research in a Study of the Careers of Female Academics	8

Machine Learning as a Model for Cultural Learning: Teaching an Algorithm What it Means to be Fat	8
Measuring the Nature of Individual Sequences	8
The probability of a robust inference for internal validity	8
Robustness and Model Selection in Configurational Causal Modeling	7
Open-ended versus Closed Probes: Assessing Different Formats of Web Probing	7
Q-SpAM: How to Efficiently Measure Similarity in Online Research	6
Politics as Usual? Measuring Populism, Nationalism, and Authoritarianism in U.S. Presidential Campaigns (1952–2020) with Neural Language Models	6
A Logistic Regression Extension for the Randomized Response Simple and Crossed Models: Theoretical Results and Empirical Evidence	6
Marginal and Conditional Confounding Using Logits	6
A Meta-analysis of Studies on the Performance of the Crosswise Model	6
Attendance, Completion, and Heterogeneous Returns to College: A Causal Mediation Approach	6
Relevant, Irrelevant, or Ambiguous? Toward a New Interpretation of QCA’s Solution Types	6
Image Clustering: An Unsupervised Approach to Categorize Visual Data in Social Science Research	6
In Search of a Comparable Measure of Generalized Individual Religiosity in the World Values Survey	6
Updating a Time-Series of Survey Questions: The Case of Abortion Attitudes in the General Social Survey	5
Coping With Plenitude: A Computational Approach to Selecting the Right Algorithm	5
Effects of Partner Presence During the Interview on Survey Responses: The Example of Questions Concerning the Division of Household Labor	5
Why the “Hoax” Paper of Baldwin (2018) Should Be Reinstated	5
A Partial Simulation Study of Phantom Effects in Multilevel Analysis of School Effects: The Case of School Socioeconomic Composition	5
An Improved Two-stage Randomized Response Model for Estimating the Proportion of Sensitive Attribute	5
Against the Mainstream: On the Limitations of Non-Invariance Diagnostics: Response to Fischer et al. and Meuleman et al.	5
Model Adequacy Checking/Goodness-of-fit Testing for Behavior in Joint Dynamic Network/Behavior Models, with an Extension to Two-mode Networks	5
Cheater Detection Using the Unrelated Question Model	5
Video Data Analysis and Police Body-Worn Camera Footage	5
Using Location Data From Mobile Phones to Study Participation in Mass Protests	5
Are National Family Surveys Biased toward the Happy Family? A Multiactor Analysis of Selective Survey Nonresponse	5
Mobilizing the Masses: Measuring Resource Mobilization on Twitter	5
The Structure of Academic Achievement: Searching for Proximal Mechanisms Using Causal Discovery Algorithms	5
Early and Late Participation during the Field Period: Response Timing in a Mixed-Mode Probability-Based Panel Survey	4
Do Quantitative and Qualitative Research Reflect two Distinct Cultures? An Empirical Analysis of 180 Articles Suggests “no”	4
Measuring and Visualizing Coders’ Reliability: New Approaches and Guidelines From Experimental Data	4
Linking Input Inequality and Outcome Inequality	4
A New Approach to Detecting Cheating in Sensitive Surveys: The Cheating Detection Triangular Model	4
Introduction to Neural Transfer Learning With Transformers for Social Science Text Analysis	4
Fear Not Scarcity but Inequality, Not Poverty but Instability	4
Method Bias Mechanisms and Procedural Remedies	4
Contextual Text Coding: A Mixed-methods Approach for Large-scale Textual Data	4
How to Interpret the Effect of Covariates on the Extreme Categories in Ordinal Data Models	4
Theoretical Foundations and Limits of Word Embeddings: What Types of Meaning can They Capture?	4
Measuring Class Hierarchies in Postindustrial Societies: A Criterion and Construct Validation of EGP and ESEC Across 31 Countries	4
Bounding Causes of Effects With Mediators	4
Evidence of Validity Does not Rule out Systematic Bias: A Commentary on Nomological Noise and Cross-Cultural Invariance	4
A Two-stage Multilevel Randomized Response Technique With Proportional Odds Models and Missing Covariates	4
Transforming Family Resemblance Concepts into Fuzzy Sets	3
From Ends to Means: The Promise of Computational Text Analysis for Theoretically Driven Sociological Research	3
Optimizing Consistency and Coverage in Configurational Causal Modeling	3
From Strange to Normal: Computational Approaches to Examining Immigrant Incorporation Through Shifts in the Mainstream	3
The Social Autopsy	3
Using Inverse Probability Weighting to Address Post-Outcome Collider Bias	3
Improving Estimates Accuracy of Voter Transitions. Two New Algorithms for Ecological Inference Based on Linear Programming	3

Estimation and sensitivity analysis for causal decomposition in health disparity research	3
A Theory of Higher Order Interactions Between Sensitive Variables: Empirical Evidences and an Application to a Variety of Smoking	3
Understanding the “Grievance Studies Affair” Papers and Why They Should Be Reinstated: A Response to Geoff Cole	3
A Language-Based Method for Assessing Symbolic Boundary Maintenance between Social Groups	3
The Augmented Social Scientist: Using Sequential Transfer Learning to Annotate Millions of Texts with Human-Level Accuracy	3
Do Different Devices Perform Equally Well with Different Numbers of Scale Points and Response Formats? A test of measurement invariance and reliability	3
Mitigating Selection Bias: A Bayesian Approach to Two-stage Causal Modeling With Instrumental Variables for Nonnormal Missing Data	3
The Potential for Using a Shortened Version of the Everyday Discrimination Scale in Population Research with Young Adults: A Construct Validation Investigation	3
Promise Into Practice: Application of Computer Vision in Empirical Research on Social Distancing	2
Methodological Issues When Interpreting Changes in Social Phenomena Over Time: Perceptions of Relative Difference, Absolute Difference, and Time Distance	2
Analyzing factorial survey data with structural equation models	2
Concrete Counterfactual Tests for Process Tracing: Defending an Interventionist Potential Outcomes Framework	2
The Extended Computational Case Method: A Framework for Research Design	2
A Bayesian Semi-Parametric Approach for Modeling Memory Decay in Dynamic Social Networks	2
A Method for Estimating Individual Socioeconomic Status of Twitter Users	2
Network Diffusion Under Homophily and Consolidation as a Mechanism for Social Inequality	2
Surveys in Communities Divided by Ethnicity and Conflict: Challenges, Possible Solutions, and Lessons Learned from a Survey in Jos, Nigeria	2
What Good is Qualitative Literacy Without Data Transparency?	2
Applying Responsive Survey Design to Small-Scale Surveys: Campus Surveys of Sexual Misconduct	2
Joint Modeling of Multivariate Survival Data With an Application to Retirement	2
Is the Acknowledgment of Earned Entitlement Effect Robust Across Experimental Modes and Populations?	2
The Effect of Question Positioning on Data Quality in Web Surveys	2
Visual Design and Cognition in List-Style Open-Ended Questions in Web Probing	2
The Effects of Open-Ended Probes on Closed Survey Questions in Web Surveys	2
Who Does What to Whom? Making Text Parsers Work for Sociological Inquiry	2
How to Borrow Information From Unlinked Data? A Relative Density Approach for Predicting Unobserved Distributions	2
Self-protecting responses in randomized response designs: A survey on intimate partner violence during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic	2